• Distraction

• Distraction could be anything that draws a person’s attention away

from the task on which they are employed. Some distractions in the
workplace are unavoidable, such as loud noises, requests for
assistance or advice, and day-to-day safety problems that require
immediate solving. Other distractions can be avoided, or delayed until
more appropriate times, such as messages from home, management
decisions concerning non-immediate work (e.g. shift patterns, leave
entitlement, meeting dates, administrative tasks etc), and social
conversations.
• Fatigue
• Fatigue is a natural physiological reaction to prolonged physical
and/or mental stress. We can become fatigued following long periods
of work and also following periods of hard work. When fatigue
becomes a chronic condition it may require medical attention but,
workers should never self-medicate! As we become more fatigued our
ability to concentrate, remember and make decisions reduces.
Therefore, we are more easily distracted and we lose 
situational awareness. Fatigue will also affect a person’s mood, often
making them more withdrawn, but sometimes more irrational and
angry.
• Impatience
• Impatience is a greater deterrent to learning pilot skills than is generally recognized. For a student, this
may take the form of a desire to make an early solo flight, or to set out on cross-country flights before
the basic elements of flight have been learned.
• The impatient student fails to understand the need for preliminary training and seeks only the ultimate
objective without considering the means necessary to reach it. With every complex human endeavor, it
is necessary to master the basics if the whole task is to be performed competently and safely. The
instructor can correct student impatience by presenting the necessary preliminary training one step at a
time, with clearly stated goals for each step. The procedures and elements mastered in each step
should be clearly identified in explaining or demonstrating the performance of the subsequent step.
• Impatience can result from instruction keyed to the pace of a slow learner when it is applied to a
motivated, fast learner. It is just as important that a student be advanced to the subsequent step as
soon as one goal has been attained, as it is to complete each step before the next one is undertaken.
Disinterest grows rapidly when unnecessary repetition and drill are requested on operations that have
already been adequately learned.
Obstinacy noncooperation
• the quality or condition of being obstinate; stubbornness.
•
Failure or refusal to cooperate, especially nonviolent civil
disobedience against a government or an occupying power